Installing Dos 6.22 on an NTFS hard drive

[MervB]

I am trying to install Dos6.22 onto a VPC running under XP SP3 with an NTFS
formatted hard drive. Dos 6.22 wants to reformat the drive to a FAT32. How
will this affect my XP?
What will happen to the reformated section of the hard drive when the VPC is
removed?

[Steve Jain]

You're not reformatting the physical drive, you're formatting the
Virtual Hard Drive, the .VHD file.
This only affects XP in that this file takes up hard drive space, like
a Word document or picture files.
When you delete the .vhd file, the space used by it on your hard drive
is recovered, just as when you delete any file.

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[Mark Rae [MVP]]

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> How will this affect my XP?

It won't affect it at all, other than to take up some disk space, just like
any other file would...

> What will happen to the reformated section of the hard drive when the VPC
> is
> removed?

Nothing, other than the space previously occupied by the virtual hard disk
will be flagged as available, just as happens deleting any other file...

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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
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[David B.]

Uhhh, Dos 6.22 does not support FAT32, FAT16 only, max partition size of
2GB.

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